Friday, January 31, 2014

The most powerful intelligence official in the United
States told a Senate committee Wednesday that National Security Agency
leaker Edward Snowden is a hypocrite and that he and his supposed
accomplices should return any classified documents he still has.

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said in an
unusually contentious Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that
Snowden’s decision to leak a trove of classified NSA documents to
the press has hurt US security and tipped off suspected
terrorists on potentially safer ways to communicate. Clapper, who
told the same committee the NSA did not collect information on
millions of Americans months before being proven wrong, also
insinuated that Snowden had help.

“Snowden claims that he has won and that his mission is
accomplished,” Clapper said during his opening remarks to
the committee, as quoted by a transcript published by the
Washington Post. “If that is so, I call on him and
accomplices to facilitate the return of the remaining stolen
documents that have not yet been exposed to prevent even more
damage to US security.”

The director did not elaborate on what he meant by
“accomplices,” but a spokesman insisted he was
“referring to anyone who is assisting Edward Snowden to
further threaten our national security through the unauthorized
disclosure of stolen documents related to lawful foreign
intelligence collection programs.”

A number of journalists on Twitter interpreted that as a threat
to Glenn Greenwald, Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras, and the number
of other reporters who have published information based on the
Snowden documents.

Aside from his introductory outburst Clapper spent most of the
remainder of the hearing deflecting questions.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) was among the visibly frustrated.
Wyden is the same lawmaker who asked Clapper in March about
massive data collection programs and scolded Clapper Wednesday,
accusing top intelligence officials or partaking in a “culture of
misinformation” when questioned about the programs Snowden
revealed.

“This committee can’t do oversight if we can’t get direct
answers,” Wyden said, adding that international trust in the
FBI, CIA, and NSA “has been seriously undermined by senior
officials’ reckless reliance on secret interpretations of the law
and battered by years of misleading and deceptive
statements.”

Wyden pressed Clapper to provide details on whether any searches
have ever been conducted on information US citizens “sent
over the web or in the cloud” and whether the NSA had
conducted or is continuing to conduct “warrantless
searches” on individual Americans.

“Senator Wyden, I think, at a threat hearing, this would…I
would prefer not to discuss this and have this as a separate
subject,” Clapper responded. “There are very complex
legal issues here, I just don’t think this is the appropriate
time or place.”

US President Obama has not only kept Clapper as part of the
administration but effectively endorsed the director earlier this
month when Obama announced that the polarizing data collection
programs employed by the NSA would not be eliminated. Still, six
lawmakers led by California congressman Darrell Issa signed a
letter to Obama Monday seeking Clapper’s dismissal.

“The continued role of James Clapper as director of national
intelligence is incompatible with the goal of restoring trust in
our security programs and ensuring the highest level of
transparency,” they wrote.

The White House announced Clapper would not be fired by end of
the same day.

Clapper was more specific about the ongoing turmoil in the Middle
East, where he claimed that Al-Qaeda has found strength in the
uncertain political situation in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and
elsewhere.

He said counterterrorism officials now estimate that 7,000
fighters have streamed into Syria from 50 other countries,
creating the fear that extremists will use Syrian passports to
enter and attack the US. The war-torn country is “in some
respects a new FATA,” a reference to the Pakistani tribal
region that Al-Qaeda leadership has made its home. Al-Nusra, an
Al-Qaeda-backed rebel group that has become one of the most
feared rebel factions in Syria “does have aspirations for
attacks on the homeland,” Clapper said.

Jason Hops31.01.2014 07:53

Every White country on the planet is forced to become multicultural and multiracial.
EVE RY white country is told to end its own race and culture.
No one asks that of ANY non-White country. Immigration and forced-assimilation is for ALL & ONLY White countries.
Anti-Whites call themselves "anti-racist&qu ot;, but their words
& actions lead to the genocide of only one group: White people.
The true goal of anti-racism is to genocide my people.
Anti-rac ist is a codeword for anti-White.

doug30.01.2014 21:45

Clapper is a bad
joke. Why he is not under arrest for lying to congress shows only how
corrupt the entire government has become.

rt.com 30 Jan 2014

It has already been stated the surveillance is 'unconstitutional'.

The authorities do not with the 'plebs' to understand, know, refer to or read the 'Constitution'.

Is it proof of life on Mars, or just a simple rock?
An astrobiologist has sued NASA in an effort to compel the
space-exploration agency to offer more information on a mysterious stone
that appeared on images taken by the Opportunity rover on Jan. 8.

Dr. Rhawn Joseph filed a lawsuit in California this week against
NASA and its administrator, Charles Bolden, calling for the
agency to "thoroughly scientifically examine and investigate
a putative biological organism."
NASA called the object
a rock, saying that based on its supposed appearance in
“after” photos of the spot but not in a
“before” image, it was likely knocked into the rover’s
purview by its wheels as it was maneuvering in the area.

White around the outside and red on the inside, NASA scientists
have said the rock looks a little like a jelly doughnut. Yet the
agency ultimately dubbed the rock “Pinnacle Island.”"We have looked at it with our microscope. It is clearly a
rock," principal rover investigator Dr. Steve Squyres said
last week during an event marking the 10th anniversary of
Opportunity's mission on Mars. "It appears that it may have
flipped itself upside down."
Yet Joseph says this may be a hasty assessment. He believes the
object looks like a “mushroom-like fungus, a composite
organism consisting of colonies of lichen and cyanobacteria, and
which on Earth is known as Apothecium,” he wrote in the
filed petition.

He also says the rock was present in the “before” photo
NASA released. Joseph posted a magnified version of the earlier
photo on Cosmology.com, showing, he maintains, that the object is
partially visible. He explains in his petition:

“[S]pores were exposed to moisture due to changing weathering
conditions on Mars. Over the next 12 days these spores grew and
developed into the structure depicted... The evidence is
consistent with biological activity and suggests that life on
Mars may have been discovered.However, in the absence of moisture, biological specimens
such as Apothecium will dry out, turn brittle and break apart and
this appears to be the condition of the structure as
depicted.”
Joseph also criticizes NASA for not releasing more close-up
photos. That is, assuming they exist.

“Any intelligent adult, adolescent, child, chimpanzee,
monkey, dog, or rodent with even a modicum of curiosity, would
approach, investigate and closely examine a bowl-shaped structure
which appears just a few feet in front of them when 12 days
earlier they hadn't noticed it,” he wrote. “But not NASA
and its rover team who have refused to take even a single
close-up photo.”
Joseph added that it would be “inexplicable, recklessly
negligent, and bizarre” if NASA did not take microscopic,
high-resolution photos from a variety of angles.

NASA responded to the suit on Thursday saying it cannot discuss
an ongoing legal matter, but that the agency has shared images
with the public and is moving forward with research on Pinnacle
Island’s composition.

“As we do with all our scientific research missions, NASA
will continue to discuss any new data regarding the rock and
other images and information as new data becomes available,”
agency spokesman Bob Jacobs said in a statement to Popular
Science.

Another NASA spokesman emphasized to The Huffington Post that the
agency will proceed with caution before making any bold
declarations.

"Finding evidence of life on worlds other than Earth is
obviously an important goal for NASA," NASA’s Allard Beutel
said. "But it has to be definitive evidence."
NASA’s caution, in this case, may not appease those eager for
more information on any potential evidence of life on the Red
Planet.

rt.com 31 Januay 2014

People may not realise that NASA is not the 'civilian' organisation that it is advertised to be, with heads of the organisation from World War II German scientists, with NAZI beliefs.

The United States government can and will withhold any information that it sees as a 'national security' threat or in the interest of public safety, which may be even by perceiving that there could be civil unrest, due to information of life or even intelligent life elsewhere being officially reported via the corporate media news empire.Information that the 'masses' may not ever be told of irrespective of Freedom Of Information or declassification laws.For more information regarding 'disclosure' the Brookings Report (1960) needs to be read.

SIR Richard Branson says the West
Australian government's shark culling policy will backfire, driving away
tourism rather than boosting it.
The British billionaire entrepreneur made the comment on breakfast
radio as the state's Fisheries department was deploying baited drum
lines off Perth beaches, including Cottesloe, where a large rally
against the program is planned for Saturday morning.

The WA
government says a spike in often-fatal shark attacks has dented tourism
and leisure-based businesses, with recreational diving operators
reporting a greater than 90 per cent plunge in people learning to dive.

But
Sir Richard, who fights China's shark fin trade, says WA is getting a
bad reputation internationally and tourists will be driven away.

"I'm
sure one of the reasons he (Premier Colin Barnett) did it was because
he was thinking it would encourage tourism. It's going to do quite the
reverse, I think," Sir Richard told Fairfax radio on Friday.

"You're advertising a problem that doesn't exist in a major way and
you're deterring people from wanting to come to Perth and your beautiful
countryside around it.

"All you're going to achieve, I think, is to worry people unnecessarily."

He said it was "very sad" such a bad example was being set to the rest of the world.

"Last
year, Australia was praised all over the world for creating the biggest
marine reserves. This year, the world is looking at Australia - and
particularly Western Australia - and wondering 'what on earth is going
on?"

news.com.au 31 Jan 2014

An appalling decision by the Australian government.

Man encroaches on one of nature's more efficient predators and the 'predator' has to be killed, just like the ignorant people who swim in crocodile infested waters where there are signs to keep out of the water.

The most important aspect here raised is the 'revenue' loss from tourists.

Just another example of low life humans with total disregard for nature, but no one can 'tarnish' the reputation of a 'successful' billionaire now can they?

Thursday, January 30, 2014

A MAN arrested for amassing almost 500 Sheriff's warrants for toll road fees
faces 916 days in jail if he refuses to pay the $132,000 fine.

Santos Bonacci, from Berwick, was bailed from Dandenong Magistrate's Court
yesterday morning on 483 charges for unpaid EastLink and CityLink fees, as well
as speeding fines, going back to early 2010.

The unemployed 51-year-old spent nine days in custody after twice refusing to
apply for bail following his arrest earlier this month.

Barrister Peter Pickering, acting for the Sheriff's Office described Mr
Bonacci as being "uncooperative" with police and the court.

"At the time of the apprehension of Mr Bonacci he was quite uncooperative. He
said the police and court had no right to arrest him," Mr Pickering told the
court.

But Mr Bonacci claimed the police were acting fraudulently and that he had
been put under duress.

"I do not wish to be a party to fraud, sir," Mr Bonaccio told Magistrate
Steven Raleigh.

He added that he sought a "peaceful remedy" to the situation.

Mr Bonacci was granted bail and must report to Narre Warren police station
once a week.

He was also barred from publishing offensive comments about Sheriff's
officers on social media after he recently posted a video on YouTube calling a
police officer a "c---" and a magistrate a paedophile.

In the video, posted in December last year and showing police and Sheriff's
officers towing a friend's car, Mr Bonacci described Victoria Police as a
criminal organisation that engaged in fraud.

Outside court he told a gathering of supporters he wouldn't be paying the
mammoth debt because police were acting fraudulently.

"Those roads and everything are built by we, the people. We own them," he
said.
He is due to appear in court again on April 1.

heraldsun.com.au 30 Jan 2014

It is not uncommon for the corporate media to not just assassinate a character but also twist certain 'truths' around or even just plainly make up stories in order to obtain notoriety for financial gain.

The corporate media is subservient to government agendas, one of which to preserve the 'integrity' of governance, which in many cases is 'fraudulent'.

A barrister has a vested interest in the 'system' therefore ANY comments made are solely biased to upkeep the courts, colleagues and lastly the interests of the client.

The police are NOT there for the protection of the public NOR are they 'public servants' as many people may be in error of this belief. This is a FACT and not an opinion ofcorpau.

Many documents are being circulated and cases put through the courts that expose the corruption of government, politicians and the police, of which many magistrates, judges and judicial clerks are aware of and are desperately trying to 'shut down' those people who are aware of the fraud.

The people only now have the resources to expose the grand corruption of authorities and corporations in Australia.

Tolls and fines are 'unlawful' and MUST be taken to court by every single person to have that 'fine' dismissed.

Corpau will be publishing documents in relation to the various frauds committed by the corporatocracy, once they become available.

One of the keys here is to understand the 'Constitution', a document that not only is real, but also was taken out of the knowledge of the public schooling system in the early 1970's in order the keep the plebs subservient to corporate rule.

It will be interesting to see how the corporate media's edited version of the original interview with Santos will portray him.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

JANUARY
20, 2014 One in every 40 serving police officers in the state has
committed an offence THERE are 437 serving police officers with criminal
convictions, that is one in every 40 officers.

It is an incredible
increase of 230 per cent over the past five years. Among the ranks is an
inspector convicted of assaulting an off-duty ­officer and
drink-driving while other offences include bashing, drink-driving,
fraud, illegal use of guns and other ­driving offences.

The Daily
Telegraph can reveal that the 437 officers have 591 convictions against
them. That is 256 per cent more than 2008 when, according to freedom of
information figures, there were 166 offences between 133 serving
officers.

Among them are 14 inspectors, five senior sergeants, 80
sergeants, 236 ­senior constables, 20 probationary ­constables and 13
student officers. Policing expert Michael Kennedy said the reason for
the increase was probably due to Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione
taking a tough line and a culture of police reporting and prosecuting
their own.

"On face value these figures appear to be negative for the
police but on the other side, Scipione does not interfere," Dr Kennedy
said. Dr Kennedy, a former detective and lecturer in policing at the
University of Western Sydney, said some police chiefs in parts of
Australia had been known for "having a word" with officers facing the
criminal courts so they could resign quietly.

"But Scipione does not do
that. If they are charged, he lets the system deal with them," he said.
Former assistant commissioner Clive Small said: "An increase of over 200
per cent over five years is a worrying trend that the police and the
­government need to keep an eye on."

In cases still in the courts, a
female officer has been charged with stalking, intimidating and bugging,
a male officer has been accused of setting up a bathroom spy camera to
secretly film people and theft, lying and corruption. "If an officer's
offence causes me to lose my confidence in them, I will sack them.

They
will not be part of this police force," he said. However he said less
serious ­offences should not warrant the end of a career but often the
workplace penalties were worse than court penalties with officers
demoted.

"Yes, there are officers still in this ­organisation who we
have charged and who have recorded a conviction," Mr Scipione said. "In
the majority of cases, these officers will have been convicted of a low
range PCA or similar offence.

While I am not happy about that, I don't
believe that warrants the end of a ... career." Since he took over as
commissioner in 2007, Mr Scipione has sacked 87 officers under section
181D of the Police Act, which states the commissioner has lost
confidence in them.

Those are officers who have not been reinstated by
the Industrial ­Relations Commission. Senior police are known to be
frustrated with the IRC which has forced them to reinstate an estimated
half of all sacked officers after appeals.

The IRC has made it clear in
their decisions that even a high-range PCA or similar offence could
never be grounds for dismissal. Former sergeant Andrew Lawrance, who the
commissioner tried to sack in 2010 because he used his penis piercing
to open beer bottles, was reinstated by the IRC. Mr Scipione was warned
about criticising the commission in 2009 by Justice Frank Marks, who
considered contempt of court proceedings against the commissioner.

The US National Security Agency and its UK counterpart, GCHQ, have
the ability to harvest sensitive personal data from phone apps that
transmit users’ data across the web, such as the extremely popular Angry
Birds game.

Along with obtaining information about the specific dimensions
and model of an individual’s iPhone or Android, the intelligence
agencies are also able to acquire details on that person’s age,
gender, and location. Details about a user’s political
affiliation, sexual orientation, and how promiscuous they are may
also be vulnerable.

This information – which was revealed in dozens of top secret
documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – was
first reported Monday by the Guardian in partnership with the New
York Times and ProPublica.

Both the NSA and GCHQ are able to “piggyback” on third party
advertisements that a user unwittingly brings onto their device
when they first download an app. Those ads, along with
geolocation information embedded in images a user uploads to a
social media site like Facebook and Twitter, essentially
pinpoints where an individual is in the world.

The slides published Monday by the Guardian also show that the
intelligence behemoths can glean a person’s home country, current
location, age, gender, zip code, marital status – with “single,”
“married,” “divorced,” “swinger,” and more among the options –
income, ethnicity, sexual orientation, education level, and
number of children.

Satellite
dishes are seen at GCHQ's outpost at Bude, close to where
trans-Atlantic fibre-optic cables come ashore in Cornwall, southwest
England (Reuters / Kieran Doherty)

A more sophisticated effort collects location information by
intercepting Google map queries from smartphones. It was deemed
to be so successful that GCHQ noted in a 2008 document that it
“effectively means that anyone using Google maps on a
smartphone is working in support of a GCHQ system.”

Scooping up data from apps allows the agencies to gather large
quantities of mobile phone data from their existing mass
surveillance tools rather than hacking into individual mobile
handsets.

Tapping into phone information is a high priority effort for the
agencies, as terrorists and other intelligence targets often use
mobile phones to plan illegal activities.

One effort by GCHQ and the NSA consists of a database that
geolocates every mobile phone mast in the world. This allows the
agencies to gather the mast ID used with any handset, thus giving
them a rough location for a particular phone.

The latest disclosures add to the public’s concern about how spy
agencies and the technology sector use information, particularly
outside the US where people have fewer privacy protections than
Americans. However, the NSA says it only deploys its capabilities
against “valid foreign intelligence agencies” and does
not target Americans.

The Washington Post reported in December that the NSA was making
use of ‘cookies’ – an online tool which allows internet
advertisers to track consumers. The report said that cookies,
along with location data, were being used by the agency
to“pinpoint targets for government hacking” and “bolster
surveillance.”

Although cookies provide much vaguer information than what is
available through phone apps, a 2010 GCHQ document reveals that
they have become extremely important to intelligence agencies.

But it’s the actual phone handset that remains of paramount
importance. GCHQ’s tools against smartphones are named after
characters in ‘The Smurfs’ cartoon. The ability to make a phone’s
microphone ‘hot’ – in order to listen to conversations – is known
as “Nosey Smurf.” The sophisticated geolocation ability is called
“Tracker Smurf.” Power management – the ability to activate a
phone that is turned off – is known as “Dreamy Smurf.” The
spyware’s self-hiding capabilities are called “Paranoid Smurf.”

rt.com 28 Jan 2014

Angry Birds is NOT the only 'game' that sends data back.Other apps also request 'location services' to 'function properly', where your location has nothing to do with the correct functionality of the application.These companies / businesses / developers could also be a front for the surveillance agencies, where the reporting code appears in the app which is approved by Apple, Google and Microsoft, which are U.S. based companies and MUST report to the U.S. based NSA if required to do so.

The so called public denouncement of any data being given to the NSA is nothing more than a blatant lie.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

From The Age publication on 6 Jan 2014 an article appears of the following content:

Notice of Application for an Electricity Retail License

Application by Onsite Energy Solution Pty Ltd.

Onsite Energy Solutions Pty Ltd [ACN 164 385 693] has applied for a License under the Electricity Industry Act 2000 to retail electricity in Victoria, restricted to up to 20 customers for a term of 16 months.

The Commission may grant or refuse to grant a license for any reason it considers appropriate having a regards to its objectives under the Electricity Industry Act 2000 and the Essential Services Commissions Act 2001 may be obtained from the Commission's website at www.esc.vic.gov.au or by contacting the Commission on (03) 9032 1300.

Please address public submissions regarding the application to Essential Services Commission, Level 37, 2 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000 or ro licenses@esc.vic.gov.au by 5pm, Monday 3 February 2014. Submissions must be relevant to the Commissions objectives under both Acts.

Anyone from any (or every) residential street in Australia, could be come a retailer.

One of
Australia’s most corrupt institutions is the current judicial (federal, state and
local) system that is extensively supported by an army of personnel in the ‘legal
system’ to perpetuate the fraud with the enforcers being Australia’s (corrupt) sheriff’s office and
the police force, which are all corporations and not part of any legitimate
government of Australia subservient to the Australian people.

The key objective
by authorities is to keep knowledge and information away from the hands of the
general populous, and oppress those who possess it.

In order to
keep the (fraudulent) system intact, individuals are initially discouraged from
speaking out or documenting the level of fraud committed.

When those tactics fail
the next level is stepped up to inform the persons involved of ‘career suicide’
or threats of never being able to obtain another job anywhere, which naturally may lead to financial difficulty and the breakup of the family unit,
where the ‘system’ will be in control of the personal affairs of the individuals.

What the
majority of Australians are unaware of, is that the so called (current) government
of Australia is a ‘corporation’ with corporate agreements that the general
populous (unknowingly / unwittingly) are bound to and thus penalised for, which
incidentally are unlawful.

The (so
called) Australian courts, which all have an ABN (Australian Business Number)
are factually places of trading, commerce and business.

Any
documentation that contains the coat of arms of the kangaroo and emu, is
documentation from a corporation, that invites you to a binding agreement with
that corporation, e.g. an alleged (speeding / red light camera) offence.

As a note, The
SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA (BUSINESS UNIT 19) with the ABN 32 790 228 959 bears the
lion and unicorn seal being the legitimate seal of the ‘Commonwealth of
Australia’, not to be confused with the 'COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA'.

What the lawyers are
NOT telling you.

When a
person hires a lawyer/barrister/etc, to appear in court on their behalf, the
corporation known as the ‘court’ is hired for business/ trading/ commerce to
deal with a matter.

When one
hires the lawyer/barrister/etc, to appear on one’s behalf the interests of the ‘system’
must be kept intact when a verdict is handed out, where the hired persons swear
an oath to the Court, their Colleagues, and lastly the Client, also known as
the three C’s within the industry.

When one
hires someone on one’s behalf, one denounces the right to speak to the
judge/magistrate.

When one
steps into the court room, the rows of seats are known as the public gallery,
where any member of the public can sit in on any court case.

When one
steps up to the Bar Table (in person or via a ‘lawyer’), one steps away from
the (jurisdiction of the) ‘land’ and enters the jurisdiction of Maritime Law.

Any so
called Australian court (Magistrates’, Perin, etc) that is a corporation which
fines you for speeding/ red light camera, city council, parking etc, has no
jurisdiction over you, BUT it is up to you to prove this, something the legal
fraternity does not inform you about, and defends this fact vigorously.

Judges
purchase matters, where the outcome is already known beforehand, where typical
court cost can be in the magnitude of $700 for a simple matter that can be in front
of the judge for as little as one minute, as a result the judgments are NOT unbiased.

Judges
receive $30,000 per conviction

Judges do
not pay income tax

Judges MUST
be under oath (this can be asked of ANY judge), have a Writ of Commission or
produce a ‘binding contract’ with you in order to proceed, otherwise they MUST
stand down. This has to be asked of a judge when one does NOT step away from the
boundary of the land, i.e. from the public gallery.

ALL
Victorian courts are owned by foreign companies, and NOT part of any legitimate
government structure.